Burger King Is Rolling Out Sweet Potato Fries (and Bacon Sundaes) for Summer

Anyone with friends who have ever signed up for a CSA or a farm share can tell you that sweet potato season is in the fall, when bushels of tubers are all you get. But national fast food chains can mess with Mother Nature all they want, it seems, because Burger King is declaring summer the season of sweet potato fries!

According to a leaked summer menu, the sweet potato fries will be part of a seasonal lineup that includes the Bacon Sundae (yes, that's a soft-serve sundae with bacon), some BBQ sauce-smothered burgers, an actual (though dubious-looking) pulled pork sandwich, and frozen lemonade.

The Bacon Sundae is straight-up nasty. And unless BK has figured out how to mimic the magic of the McRib, it's unlikely the pulled pork will be much to write home about. But sweet potato fries! Those, we will have our way, your way, or whatever way you want to give them to us, even if they are mysteriously out-of-season.